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So the Supreme Queen Tightwad of The Glorious Cheapskate Empire bestowed her royal presence upon a poor peasant's yard sale yesterday and found this marked a quarter. Since the hayseed serf in charge wouldn't take 10 cents for it, Her Highness graciously paid full price for it and brought it home. The paper says it's a 5V with a 1000mh output, whatever that means. I did a search on my EQ instruction booklet and it just says "power bank". So do ya'll think this will work? I'm thinking if it doesn't, it probably won't hurt my 800 anyway? Thanks ya'll! Ammie aka Princess Penny-Pincher

For example, if have an user mode record in park2 with personal audio settings, can i duplicate this user mode in field 2 without make another time the settings since the beggining?

Summer has come early here in the Desert Southwest, Sunny Yuma. Mid 90's today, approaching 100 through the week, must be a climate change kind of thing. I had time to spare this morning so I took the Equinox out to an area of old Dry Wash tailings I found recently. I found a number of small pieces last week with the Z7000, so I wanted to see what the Z had missed. I fired up the Equinox in Gold Prospecting 2, "made sure recovery speed reset to 6", Sens at 22, notched out -9 through -6 which covers most hot rocks down here. I moved through the old coarse and fine throw-out tailings, low and slow. I had to double check a number of hard black hot rocks that tried to blow through my notch. They generally sound off in one direction only and are easily moved with a boot scrape. I started finding these tiny nuggets about an inch or so down, resting on a layer of red clay. The Equinox was audibly sounding off with a classic "Gold Bug II" kind of Zip tone, though choppy and broken at low and slow. Unfortunately, the Screen VID could not keep up. It was generally showing -8 of the red clay, but the audible target tone was breaking through no problem and was so crisp and clear that I knew I had to dig. I'm using higher end EarBud earphones plugged directly into the machine. What I've learned so far: 1. Higher recovery speed helps control bump falsing. It's still there, but manageable. 2. Don't rely on the VID to identify gold. Even when these targets were out of the hole, the VID ranged from 1 through 9. 3. The 11" coil is plenty sensitive on small gold. I don't see a 6" coil in my future. A solid 5"X10", heck yes. 4. The Equinox is as good as any VLF gold prospecting detector out there, if you take the time to know the machine and learn it's language. As always it helps to get the coil over some gold to build confidence.

Home in the Melbourne, FL area for a couple of weeks, and the weather looks nice, so going to try some beach hunting this week when I can get out for a few hours. While some here will be hitting Cocoa and Melbourne, I'm going to "get my feet wet" south of Indiatlantic on some quieter beaches where I can really drill down on the settings, and without crowds on the beach. Results will be posted as I learn.... (Back to Eglin Air Force Base on the 22nd to attack another closed 40's to 50's housing area that is producing lots of wheaties, and therefore probably a lot of silver awaiting recovery.

This represents about 8 hours of detecting. I hit some places that I've hit hard in the past. There's one 14K gold ring with what I believe are fake diamonds, but I will be getting them tested. It didn't work on my cheap Amazon tester, so I'm hoping it's just a cheap tester. There are two silver rings and one unknown ring as it has no markings. The necklace is silver and rang up between 22 and 23. The gold band rang up as a 9- 10. The silvers rang up about 22. I was using Park One, recovery speed 7, ground balanced and tracking on. I would say I now have about 20 hours on the machine total.

Hello Was just wondering whats people preferred settings for a heavy iron contaminated field ?, would folk like to share Thanks

I have noticed that the pinpoint volume increases from what your volume is set at. Does anybody know if you can turn the pinpoint volume down or have it match what your volume is set at? It seems like minelab has made it max volume for pinpoint. It’s way too loud for my ears. Thanks for your help!

One of the things I am excited about with the Equinox is to do some swimming hole hunting as soon as the weather warms up. Because I have been using the supplied wired headphones for the land hunting, the screw cap for the headphones jack was left dangling. Evidently, the rubber strap holding it didn't have a good enough grip. The cap came loose and is MIA. I don't want to submerge the head unit with the jack port exposed... does anyone know how I could go about getting a replacement? Unfortunately (as we all know) the accessories page on the minelab website is not currently active. Tim.

I've been laid up for over a week with the friggin flu, but JW's finds with the Equinox inspired me today. A sunny 78 degrees in the Desert Southwest, so I decided some fresh air and detecting were in order. I picked a spot for easy access and easy walking, not wanting too many challenges to my recovery. An old hillside placer that we had found a number of tiny nuggets with the 7000 seemed like a good prospect. I plugged my earphones directly into the the Nox and ran the Gold 2 program with no discrimination. I jacked the sens to max and just puttered along, low and slow. I picked up these 4 micro nuggets for about 2 hrs effort. None of them registered a VID, just a barely repeatable tone. The biggest was down maybe 2 inches and gave a nice steady hum. The others were less than an inch, just a squeak of a tone. The hillside was fairly flat, so I was able to manage some decent coil control, otherwise the Nox at full power will false with every bump. You'd have to be pretty bored to make this kind of detecting a habit, but it served its purpose today.

There is a very noticeable latency with the wireless ML 80 headphones that come with the equinox 800, the WM-08 module really is a lot faster (like the manual says) and makes it so much easier to visualize the target in the ground. There will always be some latency due to processing the detector has to do but the ML-80 headphones really made it painful to pinpoint and visualize a targets location IMO and this probably applies to all aptx and aptx LL (low latency) devices I’m afraid. Just thought I’d put that out there for anyone who’s had trouble or wants to enhance their detector further! ?

Saw this on Treasurenet. Someone was going back and forth with Minelab about repairs after warranty expiration on the Equinox. The final response from Minelab was as follows:

I saw Brandon (aka Dr Tones) post that he was (in a roundabout way) testing the EQ's 6" coil. I figured if Brandon was, Steve might be as well? I bet the 6" coil is going to be amazing at trash sifting

I'm moving to Costa Rica soon and I want to bring an Equinox 800 with me to detect down there. I've been all over the place on what detector I want to bring and I decided on the Equinox 800 since it covers all the areas I'd like to use it. The hundreds of beaches on the coast because it's silent in wet salt and waterproof, little swimming holes and rivers because it's waterproof, in fields just to see what I can dig up and also on and around old mining grounds to check the spoils piles and see if anything was left behind. This is the reason I would like to see videos on gold detecting with the Equinox since I've watched videos about almost everything else, park, beach, and field. If anyone could point me to some it would be awesome! I was hoping to see some videos from people in australia but I can't really find anything. Maybe I'm not searching correctly I have an AT Pro which I will probably give to my cousin and detecting partner when I leave because I have started using the Tesoro Mojave and the Compadre and I have really jived with it. I will bring those two down with me also but since they aren't waterproof I think the Equinox would suit me well. Just a little background, my wife is from there and we've been slowly building a house down there for probably the last 10 years. It's done now and her and my 2 girls are living there and just waiting for me to get my butt down there. We live in the northeast province of Guanacaste near the town of Tilaran. Around there, there have been mines near Rio Chiquito and Abangares and there is a place called Campos de Oro, or Gold Fields near these mines. I'd like to take the equinox to rivers and try to do a little detecting and panning for gold in those areas. Thanks!

I have an equinox 600 and 800. I am using the APTX Bluetooth headphones on the 800. I have been using the WM08 wireless module with the 600. However, the dangling wires were still annoying with the module in a shirt pocket. I experimented with attaching the module to my hat but this was awkward. So i tried something different- I wound excess cordage around headband of my Amazon basics 32 ohm headphones. Then i fastened the module to one side of the earmuffs with black duct tape. What resulted is shown here. It is very convenient this way , like the apt x is. The only thing is I'm afraid the tape will get messy in hot weather, so next I will fasten the module with elastic or ziptes. I'm using them with my 600 today.

I went to a farm that has given a good number of silver and wheat from one specific area in the yard that is about 60x80 feet. Not a very big area, but very productive. I have hunted it in grids from north to south, south to north, east to west, then west to east, and of course diagonally. I took the 800 out to this spot and used the settings from my last hunt: 3 Fe bias, 4 recovery, park 2, 50 tone, 18 volume, all metal, 6 threshold, and had the Fe volume up 2 notches from stock. In three hours I pulled 4 wheat and some really cool relics for your inspection. The large copper-brass looking thing was an orthotic from "The Arrowsmith Mfg. Co. Inc." found at 14". I had to take a picture of the wheat I recovered with a big nail about 1/2" directly below it, I pulled the wheat out and the pointer was still going. I thought it was going to be a spill not a big nail! I am still sad that the depth gauge is so wonky, I may try to reach out to minelab about it. Until the depth gauge works better on cents and dimes or they put adjustable volume gain I do not think it will replace my CTX for trashy park hunts as I discriminate by depth since there are so many screw tops in the best parks in North East Ohio. Thanks for looking!

Doesn't look to impressive does it? Only one wheat penny! Several old memorials, is that all you might say. One old copper ring and a two piece button with gold gilt still showing. You might be thinking, why Mark would post such a picture, well there is a story behind yesterdays very enjoyable hunt. It all started over 10 years ago for this particular site. An old school where they've burn coal for heat and discarded the coal waste in and around the entire school property. This waste ranges from nickel to BB size and most will attract to a common magnet. The material has always played havoc (reduced depth and continuous ground chatter) on all the regular VLF machines that have hunted this property, and I might add, the most expensive machines on the market at that. Now what I'm pleased about is finding these items in what I would consider a hunted out site. Wanting to hear everything I started with park 1, ground balanced, then set to tracking, opened up the discrimination, set the tones to 50 and did a noise cancel. During the hunt I also tried park 2 and both the field programs, all of which performed very well for me. While hunting I listened closely to the audio response of the ground and all the iron signals I was hearing. After a few minutes and no success I started noticing mixed high tone bleeps and stopped to sweep the coil over each and before long discovered these coins either mixed in or around some of the iron audio responses I was getting. Carefully rotating around some of these signals I noted, if the audio cleared up and gave a repeatable tone it was a coin or similar non-ferrous target. If the audio stayed a more iron audio it was always a nail of some sort. Even though no silver was found, I counted the hunt extremely successful and enjoyable at that. Already looking forward to next time!

I took the EQ 800 out today to a little colonial iron patch that my friend and I hunted a few weeks ago. We had both hunted it with our Deus and found a toasted copper and a bunch of tacks and flat buttons along with the normal small buckles etc. Today I went back with the EQ in field 1 and purposely hunted the same area I had hunted before. I was amazed at the number of targets I had missed before. No big targets but plenty of small buttons and pieces of brass. I tried field 2 for a little while but honestly it seemed to false more on the nails and was a little to "sparky" for me. The first good target of the day was this pretty piece of cut silver. I think I am going to like this new machine.

Yesterday morning I sent my 800 to Naperville for repair so I decided to hunt the same area with my E-Trac. I went out this morning and the 1st 15 minutes I would have traded the E-Trac for a coffee and a donut. Then I realized I was swinging way to fast so I slowed down and hit a cpl of targets. I wanted to hunt the same area I had been hunting with my 800 to get some sort of a comparison based on previous finds with the 800. I know it's not scientific because it's possible there wouldn't be anything in the area. I found a little over $4 in two hours and two of the coins being Liberty $1 coins. I had been averaging $6 in clad for two hour hunts all week with the 800. What I found is I have to work a lot harder with the E-Trac than the 800. Aside from swinging slower when I would hit a target area with multiple VDI's I would have to slowly cover the area where I was getting tones and especially if I seen a quarter VDI flash. It does not separate targets well and I dug a lot of cans this morning. I don't think I dug 3 cans all week with the 800. I also dug an unusual amount of pennies . The ratio was 4 pennies to each dime. I didn't get as clear of tones as I do with th 800 and nothing as deep as I been getting with the 800. I admit I am a bit rusty with the E-Trac but the 800 is ready to go out of the box. The pre programmed modes of the 800 are much better suited to hunting out of the box without tweaking anything. Right now I can't say the 800 is better than the E-Trac because so much of it is skill level. If you compare cost of detectors the 800 is a clear winner. I am no expert with the E-Trac and know it has much more potential than I am getting out of it even though I have downloaded most of the popular programs. As of right now I am not ready to dump the E-Trac but I will have a better idea which detector I think is best when I get the 800 back. If I feel the 800 is the clear winner when i get it back I will sell the E-Trac and buy a 600. I have had so much euphoria over the 800 and I am trying to be honest with myself but I sure hope my gut feeling is right

I just got home from my favorite spot and had been there maybe 45 mins and doing well as usual. I was digging a 28 target when my detector started going crazy in the pinpoint mode but I didn't leave in pinpoint. I picked it and hit the pinpoint button and nothing happened I then hit the detect button and it went to Park 2 but again went into pinpoint and was screaming like crazy and the VDI went nuts jumping from 12- 32. I turned it off and back on and it still did the same thing. I looked at the battery and it showed 30% or less. Last time when the battery got low it just shut off on it's own. I looked at previous threads but couldn't find anything. Any ideas or was I just needing a charge. I am charging it now.

https://www.minelab.com/anz/go-minelabbing/treasure-talk/recovery-speed-target-masking Great write up Steve, thank you for your time and all the effort spent trying to help us learn the secrets of the Nox.

Yesterday I went out to an old SP stop in the desert. It has a long history but the heaviest use was 1920's-1930's when it had a small post office. Being next to the tracks I experienced EMI with each passing train. There is also an under ground cable that runs along side the tracks that made itself known when I got close to it. To top it off the ground is mineralized. I struggled with my settings. I tried default P1,P2 and F1,F2, did not try the other modes. I settled on F2, 5 tones with the power set at 17. I did not change the IB. Later in the day I did notch out everything below 19 with the exception of 12/13. All the targets were shallow so I assume I could have turned the power down even more. I am open to suggestions on settings, or is this just power v.s. stability ? With all that said there were targets worth digging. 1892 v and a 1943 war nickel. A military button from I do not know when, lots of junk that sounded good too when covered with dirt. This thing has been suprisingly easy to use, just not sure I was spot on with set up this time. I am going to go back again and experiment with the options.

I seen Nuke asked about beach hunting in the iron bias thread. Ive got about 100 hours on it now beach playing ..... i say playing because i just got a pair of phones done on the 1st. So..... now im hunting ... about 28 hours serious and about paid for the detector in the last 4 days. You gotta want to hunt with this machine because she likes minerals and concentrations of aluminum. So .... few things ive done to quiet it down. One is ..... you can move the Iron bias from 0 finding a decent number without going over board..... and 6 default is to much for my beach, it seems 2 works well. Also.... recovery speed.. the lower you go the longer those tones are stretched out making it sound like you are hunting right next to an electric fence lol.... moving it to 5 worked for me. Let me throw something else in here ...... GB. My beach was reading auto GB 12 in beach 1 in the wet sand.... but do another GB in beach 2.... you will get 4. ADD 5 digits to you beach 2 GB will get you about the same sensitivity as beach 1, yet is a little quieter. Anyone ever hunt with an Xcal with sensitivity set at just above 8 in disc..... thats what this machine can sound like...... and those digits jumping that Brandon showed on his video is what you may get..... until you hit a target. If you run all the defaults......and in beach 2 shes pretty quiet...... but you aint getting the best out of it. I also was using AM and reduced the target volume to 2 for iron....... throwing those tones in for me broke up the constant low tones the machine was giving. Cant wait to see what others think about the machine IN the water and the suggestions/tricks they used for depth, sensitivity and chatter.

I am hitting some already hit park areas but going about it a bit more methodically cleaning up stuff I missed. The areas are not particularly old and so the last couple hunts I have rejected everything from 21 on down except for 13. I am in Park 1 but pushing sensitivity a bit too high probably at 21 or 22 so I am getting quite a bit of very high tone ferrous falsing in the high 30s. Iron bias set at zero. I have been half tempted to either block 39 and 40 or set them as a low tone ferrous. I do like hearing them though as 39 in particular is a “tell” that an item is ferrous so I may have to try the low tone experiment. Or lower my sensitivity. Or maybe even try iron bias! Still I am not getting hardly any ferrous fool me enough to actually dig it. The high tone, high 30s signals are very wishy washy whereas a coin signal tightens up and normally hits in the 20s except for those quarters coming in around 30. I am basically cherry picking the copper penny/dime/quarter results and “hard 13” nickels. I am hitting some not particularly old but quite trashy locations and don’t want to get too ridiculous chasing targets and so far this is working pretty efficiently. If the areas were older I would open it up down to 17 and include 12 for the nickels. What I am using now makes a nice cherry picking mode for newer picnic type areas. Been running recovery speed at 7 or maybe 6. Getting very little trash fooling me at this point, especially in the high end. Probably more square tabs at 13 faking me out due to digging nickels than anything else. Only a few bottle caps. The areas have been hunted but I can tell people have passed on the nickel range due to all the trash, so even going for real hard 13 hits only is still piling up the nickels. When I say "hard 13" I mean a target that hits real hard at 13 and exhibits "roundness". The only other target tends to be newer square tabs, which being thinner and square generally do not sound as solid to me. The ones that trick me are less than an inch deep and at that point just easier to pop them out then spend time trying to figure out if they are good or not. 24 quarters, 35 dimes, 31 nickels, and 46 pennies. Eight were wheatback pennies so silver coins were possible but did not get any this time. I did get a nice little sterling silver and opal ring however so I guess that counts! Interesting these days since copper pennies are no longer dropped that with clad dimes still being dropped dimes have caught up to copper pennies numerically as a find these days. Sure was not that way when I took up coin hunting over 40 years ago! Of course wheaties came out of the ground practically new back in those days. Seems the coins and I are both aging.... Been kind of fun coin hunting again. I normally do gold nuggets and jewelry with coins more a bycatch while jewelry detecting. Right now though I want to take advantage of wetter spring weather to hit park areas that get too dry later to be doing much plugging. Easier digging now and much better chance of the ground recovering well. Once the summer heat starts I will get back to my regular detecting but for now this is a lot of fun as a change of pace for me. Park 1 - Multi-IQ50 TonesIron Bias 0Detect Speed 6 unless in dense trash, then 7Auto (Pump) Ground BalanceSensitivity 21 or 22 depending on EMIAll items from 21 on down rejected except for 13 Follow Up Thread

Solid white gold ring 18k found in 2 foot of water today a bit before low tide near a local jetty. Has Birmingham UK hallmarks, 7.4 grams. Rang a stable, loud and clear 17 DIG ME ... in Beach 2, sens 20, GB Tracking. Also found a few coins.

I have seen several comment about the somewhat dim LEDs on the headphone making it hard to determine when they are turned off. I also initially had that problem and got home to find mine still on when I got out of the sun. My procedure now is to leave the controller on while turning the headphones off. When turning off is successful the headphone symbol disappears from the screen and sound is heard from the controller handle. Seems much surer than trusting my old eyes to determine the status on the LEDs.